Word: bronchially
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...that look like babies' croup kettles. They generate a "superheated Aerosol," a mist containing minute droplets of 15% salt solution and 20% propylene glycol (a wetting agent) at 125° F. The patient inhales this hot fog for half an hour. The salt solution draws out fluid from bronchial cells and from the myriad tiny air-exchange cells (alveoli) in his lungs. The wetting agent helps bring out more fluid that contains cells. The patient coughs this up. When the substance is put under the microscope, an expert cancer detective can spot abnormal cells that indicate the beginnings...
Died. William Christopher Handy, 84, trumpeter, composer of The St. Louis Blues, music publisher, autobiographer (Father of the Blues), who became a songwriter because the "songs of the South ware pinin' to be written"; of bronchial pneumonia; in Manhattan. The son of emancipated slaves. Handy was born in an Alabama log cabin. The Memphis Blues, written in 1909 to abet the first mayoralty campaign of Memphis' Edward H. ("Boss") Crump, started his career in jazz writing. This month, St. Louis Blues, a fictionalized film biography of Handy's life, will be released by Paramount Pictures...
Died. Charles Langbridge Morgan, 64, English author of mystic-tinged novels (The Fountain, Sparkenbroke) and plays (The River Line, The Burning Glass), essayist (Liberties of the Mind) and longtime London Times drama critic (1926-39); of a bronchial ailment; in London...
...Viscount Waverley of Westdean, stiff-necked first Home Secretary in Winston Churchill's wartime Cabinet, after whom Britons named their tiny, corrugated-iron, backyard air-raid shelters ("Anderson Shelters"), later (1943-45) Chancellor of the Exchequer, who represented Britain at the 1944 Bretton Woods monetary conference; of bronchial pneumonia; in London...
...love Song. This week Tommy helps Kraft TV celebrate its tenth anniversary in a drama called Flesh and Blood, in which he sings My Love Song, a tired, trite, bronchial number far out of Sands's usual rock-'n'-roll line ("But I like all kinds of music"). He also opens a three-week, $30,000 engagement at Manhattan's Roxy before going back to Hollywood to make The Singin' Idol for 20th Century-Fox, with which he has a seven-year contract...